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[โ€“] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you bought a pager or walkie talkie that was part of a batch of pagers ordered specifically by Hezbollah through a Mossad front, then yes. Be careful if you bought a second device of that kind from Lebanon recently.

Otherwise, probably not.

As for phones, the whole reason the Mossad bugged pagers was because Hezbollah told their members to get rid of their phones because they believed Israel could track them (which, given the many espionage and offensive hacking companies in Israel, is probably true). Unless the terrorists also ordered phones through this Mossad front, I don't expect any phones to explode.

[โ€“] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I didnโ€™t expect to see where pagers, radios and walkie-talkies were going to explode. It is a whole new world.

[โ€“] philpo@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not that new, actually.

Mossad killed Mahmoud Hamshari, a leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and killed Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics with a bomb in his (non mobile) phone. They called him, confirmed he was on the phone and blew him up.

Yahya Ayyash the chief bomb maker of the Hamas was also killed by an exploding mobile phone in 1996.

The size of the operation here is truly impressive,but it's hardly new - and nothing another bad faith state level actor couldn't do. There is a good reason proper governments control incoming shipments of communication devices for their officials and security services very closely.

[โ€“] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Very interesting. Thanks

[โ€“] blackbrook@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

This seems like a very unreliable way to check that.

[โ€“] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago

This is a pretty fucking reasonable question right now.

[โ€“] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Israel just made it impossible to get through security...

Phone, yes: your battery can explode / light an intense fire. Watch, depends on the watch.

[โ€“] waka@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

If you carry a sharp screwdriver or stable hard knife around to puncture the battery rapidly, you may have something sort of resembling explosives, just very, VERY inefficient and unpredictably to set off. You'd be a lot better off using that screwdriver or knife instead to do whatever you'd wanna do with an exploding phone.

[โ€“] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

If you cobsider the battery as an explosive then yes